STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1404, sig. 109-4/1158 (damaged)

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English Translation

3a Reichenberg - Pardubitz to set up a bus line with the purpose of creating more favourable transport connections by taking up the connections to the trains in Pardubitz to and from the most important places of the East Sudeten-gaues. between the Gauhauptstadt Reichenberg and the most important organs of the Ost-Sudetengaues via Pardubitz three daily connections and via Hirschberg Glatz one daily connection in each direction. The establishment of a bus line between Reichenberg and Pardubitz would give some relief to the existing timetable (the requested bus lines are registered in the timetable extract with red), e.g. for train journeys I and V by shorter journey times for train trips IV and VIII by making a further connection daily in Pardubitz. In all, however, the establishment of a bus service between Reichenberg and Pardubitz would not reduce the total travel time Reichenb Ost-Sudetengau to such a degree that even the shortest connection could be used to travel from the East Sudetengae to Ref lenberg and back in 1. To this end, it should be noted that the requirement 3 of a bus connection Reichenberg - Pardubitz can only be recognized by a relatively small circle of users (according to the official censuses of the Reichsbahndirektion Troppau, 8 one-way tickets Troppau - Reichenberg were issued on average daily in October 1942). With the war-related conditions, the current rail connection via Hirschberg - Glatz: Reichenberg from 6.56/6.57, Troppau at 16.32 and 78222 Troppauer from ll Uhr Reichenberg at 21.45, must be regarded as a connection which takes sufficient account of the needs of travel traffic. Longer driving times compared to the planned bus line resulting inconvenience